That is the question. My company gives us free flu shots. I got one last year and it set me back a little. I didn't really get sick I just felf off a little achey for a couple of days. Decision time for this year.

I used to pass on the flu shot. Then one year I got the flu. Not the bad cold that people often mistake for the flu. I got the flu. About 8 days of 100+ degree fever, vomiting, pooping, cold chills while sweating, shivering uncontrollably, and intense aching all over my body.

That is the question. My company gives us free flu shots. I got one last year and it set me back a little. I didn't really get sick I just felf off a little achey for a couple of days. Decision time for this year.

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Compared to the bedridden 3-7 days of "I think I might die" that the flu gives you, I would get the shot.

I used to pass on the flu shot. Then one year I got the flu. Not the bad cold that people often mistake for the flu. I got the flu. About 8 days of 100+ degree fever, vomiting, pooping, cold chills while sweating, shivering uncontrollably, and intense aching all over my body.

After that I get a flu shot every year. As do my wife and kids.

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I am convinced that most people who think they have had the flu at some point haven't.

As long as flu shots have been available to me I have refused to take them, with no consequence.
For that reason I continue to turn them down.

YMMV

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I'll always take a pass on the (what I consider to be) superfluous injections. I never get the flu anyway and if I did then I figure my system must've needed a good housecleaning. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I have had the flu before it was awful. In bed for a week, 2 exits no waiting (if you know what I mean ) body aches, fever. Took me another couple of weeks to get back to normal. Hey, I just used the word 'normal" and me in the same sentence. :scowl: Still I think I am going to pass this year.

I'm loaded up on my gov drugs for a lifetime. After being a pincushion in boot camp. No more for me.
Actually flu shots a few years after the Military.
I did get "swine flu" a few years back. It was only 3 days of hell. Not too bad. I think that was the last time I had a flu shot.

In all honesy I can't remember when I last had a flu shot. But I remember the last time I had the flu...October of 2009 when I was laid off. The fever and intense chills came and left in about 3 days but for the next 8 or 9 days I felt like I had the crap beaten out of me. Never had a flu that beat me up as bad as that one did.